By “My life has not been ruined by having to write about Elon Musk on Saturdays.” | Laura Normand / The Verge
This story, originally published October 28th, 2022, has been updated because, well, you are never going to guess what happened.
Matt Levine would like you to know that Elon Musk does not actually ruin all of his vacations. Sure, he was at Sesame Place, the theme park just outside Philadelphia, with his kids when Musk announced his Twitter bid, and then stayed up until midnight that night to get his newsletter, Money Stuff, out. But that was kind of fun! “My life has not been ruined by having to write about Elon Musk on Saturdays,” the former mergers and acquisitions lawyer told me. And in M&A, everything happens on the weekend.
The main problem, actually, was that he was working on a 40,000-word Bloomberg Businessweek story about…